Electronic Arts

Want to be part of the Next Generation of games development? EA is the leading developer for next gen games and looking for passionate gamers who want to be a part of this exciting time.

EA Canada currently has dozens of games in production and aside from some of the most profitable game titles like FIFA, NBA Street, NHL and Need for Speed, we are also developing some home-grown next gen New IP games as well for the Wii, PSP, XBox360 and PS3 including recently announced titles such as Boogie, Playground and Skate. A big emphasis moving forward is our drive towards online gaming with the advent of next gen console capabilities.

EA life feels just like what you dreamed a job could be. We’ve created a fun, casual work environment that let’s you be who you are and puts you at ease…so you can make great games! Our main Burnaby campus, Electronic Arts Canada, is EA's largest facility with 400,000 square feet in a state of the art campus-like environment, with over 1700 employees, comes complete with a cafeteria, fitness centre, arcade lounge, intramural sports, indoor/outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, soccer field and a huge theatre.

Our Downtown campus, Electronic Arts Black Box, captures the top four floors of a high-rise in Vancouver’s downtown waterfront. EAX is 70,000 square feet of panoramic views of the city, harbour, and mountains! The studio is well equipped with multiple sound studios, game trial theaters, disco lounge, cafeteria, arcade, DJ booth, gym, company store and outdoor balcony complete with fireplace and barbeque. Enjoy all that the downtown core has to offer all the while working on one of EA’s most successful franchises – NEED FOR SPEED!!!

Electronic Arts Laying Off 1,000 Employees
Gaming giant Electronic Arts, which has multiple major offices in Canada, is slated to lay off up to 1,000 employees. The layoffs at EA, which owns Edmonton-born BioWare, were first reported by...
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Electronic Arts to sell 15% of Ubisoft
Whether or not this will affect Ubisoft Canada is still yet unknown, however, gaming website Gamasutra has reported that Electronic Arts is planning to sell off 15% of it's stake in Ubisoft. ...
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Techvibes at the E3 Expo, Day 1
It’s Christmas in June for gamers, as the annual E3 Expo ramps up and announcements come pouring in about the software and hardware due to arrive over the next year. I was able to attend the...
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The state of the Canadian gaming industry
In the wake of the Canadian Video Game Awards, as covered by Warren Frey last week, many are probably wondering: just where does the Canadian video game scene stand?
Recently, Canada has been...
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Ten Biggest Video Game Developers in BC
According to our records, the following are the ten biggest video game developers in BC but our employee count data goes back to 2009. If you work for one of these game developers and can help us...
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Electronic Arts to invest in VanEdge Capital
Private Equity blog peHUB's Alexander Haislip is reporting that Electronic Arts is poised to invest in VanEdge Capital's $200 million Canadian venture capital fund and that the fund expects to hold...
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Biggest video game developers in BC
Business in Vancouver annual list of the Biggest video game developers in BC was publsihed today and the usual suspects are near the top.
Rankings are based on the number of staff working in...
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Electronic Arts lays off 1,500
Earlier today Electronic Arts announced that it had acquired social gaming startup Playfish for $300 Million.
This afternoon, Electronic Arts said it would lay off 1,500 workers by April 2010,...
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Is Ottawa still Silicon Valley North?
Canada's capital once had a nickname likening it to the sunny California home of companies like Apple and Google - Silicon Valley North.
This month, Ottawa's former high-tech start Nortel began...
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EA hires in Waterloo for Social Gaming
According to Gamasutra, Electronic Arts continues to expand into the digital market and is hiring for a "new social gaming platform" at its relatively unknown EA Waterloo office.
Job listings...
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The Future at Electronic Arts in Burnaby
The Burnaby Board of Trade, in partnership with the BC Technology Industry Association (BCTIA), is hosting The Future of Technology next week at the Electronic Arts campus in Burnaby.
Pascal...
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Vancouver's Video Game Family Tree
The search string "Vancouver + Gaming" is an surpisingly popular search query. As a result, a Techvibes blog post published a year ago titled The Gaming Industry in Vacouver was one of our most...
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Black Box axes majority of staff
Gaming blog Gamasutra is reporting that Vancouver-based studio EA Black Box laid off the majority of its staff yesterday.
Upwards of 200 of the Electronic Arts-owned development house are said...
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EA brings charity to consoles
Gamers get a bum rap as couch-bound, anti-social loners who spend all their time blasting virtual opponents to smithereens. Of course, anyone with even a passing knowledge of modern gaming knows...
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Edmonton's Bioware is getting nervous
The Edmonton Journal seems to think hometown Bioware Corporation will be one of the nine planned studio closures that Electronic Arts (EA) announced today.
Only one facility was identified in...
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Big Fish in a Big Pond
While this is hardly news to anyone in our building, the Vancouver Sun's Marke Andrews wrote today about Seattle's Big Fish Games opening a Vancouver studio. Their new Yaletown digs are one floor...
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Belt tightening in Vancouver Gaming Industry
The gaming industry has proven to be pretty resilient to economic downturns, especially around this time of the year when holiday shopping kicks in and the latest game titles are stacked under the...
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EA plans layoffs as sales slow
Today Electronic Arts cuts its full-year profit forecast due to a delay in the latest Harry Potter video game and its stock fell 14 percent. They also announced that they plan to cut about 6...
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Take Six on Take-Two Offer to Expire
Vancouver's Electronic Arts (EA) said it won't extend a Monday evening deadline for its $2- Billion tender offer to buy smaller rival Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. - best known for the popular...
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Electronic Arts gets an Agent
Historically video game producers have relyed heavily on established comic book and literary franchises for game concepts but it seems the tables have turned and the list of films based on video...
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Electronic Arts Coming to Yaletown
Big news out of Techvibes' Yaletown neighborhood - Electronic Arts (EA) is coming to the 'hood. Apparently EA's lack of a Yaletown address has been hurting their recruiting efforts in the gaming...
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The Gaming Industry in Vancouver
The Gaming space in Vancouver continues to flourish thanks to a supportive community that has developed around the Big Companies and the smaller studios that call the West Coast...
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EA picks up Bioware for close to a billion
Games giant Electronic Arts, which maintains two facilities in Vancouver, announced they will acquire Edmonton-based Bioware, along with fellow studio Pandemic, to the tune of $860 million....
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